
Sun 21 July 2024


Debauchery and the Black Death
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
21/07/2024 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week… Tuesday July 23 BATTLE IN THE BOX: Today and tomorrow, Jimmy Carr pitches Katherine Ryan…

Laughs in the parks... in England, Wales and Ireland
21/07/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.

Talk about joke theft!
Dara Ó Briain is the victim of a ‘shocking’ crime
21/07/2024 … Dara Ó Briain has been the victim of a ‘shocking’ crime on the supposedly genteel island of Guernsey.

Details of new Murder, They Hope special revealed
Apocalypse Slough guest stars Sanjeev Bhaskar, Simon Day, Matthew Kelly and Shaun Williamson
21/07/2024 … Details of the next Murder, They Hope special, featuring Johnny Vegas and Sian Gibson’s hapless private detectives, have been revealed.
Sat 20 July 2024

'Weird Al' Yankovic: Polkamania!
20/07/2024 … ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic has released his first music track in a decade.

Piglets
Review of ITV1's new police recruit comedy
20/07/2024 … They may have had to go back 20 years to get the old writing team back together again, but ITV deserves to have a hit on its hands with Piglets.

How Bob Newhart's wife kept him grounded
Comic was married to Ginnie for 60 years
20/07/2024 … The Times Diary column today recounts a lovely story about how Bob Newhart’s wife Ginnie kept his feet on the ground.